New PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers

Accomplish more with 61% more performance.

Featuring Intel® Xeon® processors E5 family, Dell™ PowerEdge™ 12th generation servers can offer up to 61 percent increased performance over previous generation Dell servers, so your entire company can get more done in less time.

You can also get up to 18 times more Microsoft® SQL Server® transactions per second when you use PowerEdge Express Flash Storage solid-state drives (SSDs) (directly connected to the CPU and memory bus). These PCIe (PCI Express) SSDs help to accelerate database, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and I/O (input/output) performance, enabling you to turn data into valuable information faster.

Improve operational efficiency with agent-free systems management.

iDRAC7, Dell's innovative agent-free systems management tool, automates day-to-day IT management functions. As proof, Windows® 2008 can be deployed up to 3 times faster* than with HP®.

With iDRAC7, you can deploy, update, monitor and troubleshoot servers with agent-free management ― regardless of the state of operating systems or hypervisors. The Dell iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller, Dell's agent-free systems management tool, provides direct access to hardware, inventory and configuration status ― even if the operating system is not available ― and server alerts with prescriptive messaging that can help you address potential issues before they are problems.

Ensure business continuity and run up to 50% more virtual machines.

Next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers raise the bar on IT efficiency and help you embrace innovation in your IT environment. The latest PowerEdge 12th generation servers can run up to 50% more virtual machines than previous generations. And with Intel Xeon processor technology, you can easily combine servers from multiple generations into the same virtualized server pool to extend failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery capability.

Position for the future with the Dell Select Network Adapter.

Choose a Dell Select Network Adapter today to keep your options open for the future. With the Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapter family, our customers get LAN on Motherboard (LOM) flexibility with purpose-built cards, free from vendor lockdown, which protects your server infrastructure investment and delivers the added benefit of being able to adopt newer technology at your own pace.

Select Network Adapters provide the freedom to choose including choice of technology, choice of interface and choice of vendor. These are modular integrated networking cards which replace traditional fixed LOM infrastructures. Having this flexible and modular option, instead of a fixed LOM, increases the operational efficiency and longevity of servers and provides investment protection.

Your servers do not need to be replaced just because IO requirements change. An IO device can be replaced with a new Select Network Adapter at any time, which provides more benefits than the traditional LOM without forcing you to occupy a valuable PCI expansion slot.

Dell Select Network Adapters are available for a wide range of PowerEdge 12th generation servers, including both blade and rack-optimized form factors. These adapters are fully managed by Dell’s industry-leading comprehensive embedded management infrastructure for device configuration and updates. All Select Network Adapters can even be monitored in real time utilizing Dell’s unique agent-free embedded systems management technology offered with the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC7).

Designed by you. Developed by Dell.

We’ve spent over a year gathering more than 7,700 discrete customer insights to develop our new servers. Many of these valuable insights have led to design features delivered in our new Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers.

"... eliminated the performance issues that can slow workers down..."

"Lennox International has more than 6,000 employees that rely on Microsoft® Exchange software to communicate with colleagues, business partners and customers. In our testing, the processing performance and large-capacity storage capacity available from the Dell PowerEdge R720xd with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family eliminated the performance issues that can slow workers down. Moving some of our employees to this platform could help us boost their productivity while enabling us to cut the additional costs of running added storage arrays for user mailboxes."

"We currently run distinct servers for the Microsoft® SQL Server® databases and HotSchedules application servers that power our customer-facing cloud environment, but we’d like to significantly consolidate that infrastructure. In our testing, we found that the new Dell PowerEdge servers deliver the processing power, memory capacity and large-scale on-board storage to easily run both a SQL database and multiple applications in a virtualized environment on the same system. The SQL server databases barely stressed the processors of the new Dell servers. Consolidating our infrastructure with the new Dell servers could help us reduce operating expenses and conserve physical space for growth while still delivering the outstanding performance that our customers have come to expect.”

Power your virtualized environment with the small form factor PowerEdge™ R620 rack server. The R620 server power and density are perfectly suited for demanding workloads, such as web servers or file and print servers.

• 2 socket/1U • Designed to deliver up to 49% more performance while using up to 26% less energy • Offers concentrated computing power for space-sensitive environments

Get up to 80 percent higher performance with Dell PowerEdge servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5 product family.

IT organizations around the world are driving higher value into their businesses by virtualizing their data centers to reduce costs and adding automation to improve service levels, efficiency and agility. Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers provide the foundation for this innovation. They account for the majority of all servers in today’s virtualized data centers and clouds, and they also power many of today’s highest performing workstations.

The latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product families take these advantages to new heights with up to 80 percent higher performance than the prior generation and even better energy efficiency. Importantly, these processors also include advanced technologies to help solve the storage, networking and security challenges arising in today’s increasingly dynamic computing environments.

The PowerEdge R320 features the Intel Xeon E5-2400 processors with essential Intel memory RAS features – and its performance scales to your needs.

Run your virtualized environments faster with memory-dense servers.Dell’s memory strategy for the PowerEdge 12th-generation servers provides the latest technologies and advanced features for you to meet your workload needs and solve real-world problems. All the next-generation PowerEdge servers, including 1U form factors, come equipped with dense memory and plenty of fast internal storage for caching.

Maximize network utilization with switch-independent partitioning.With switch-independent portioning, you can tailor your network by provisioning exactly the right amount of bandwidth your applications demand and maximize your network utilization. Use this customizable feature to allocate and share network bandwidth, including on 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections, based on application demand.

Position for the future now with the Select Network AdapterThe exclusive PowerEdge Select Network Adapter on select models replaces single vendor embedded NICs with customer-defined connectivity option, allowing seamless migration between 1GB and 10GB directly on the motherboard. Select Network Adapters provide our customers with the freedom to choose: choice of technology, choice of interface and choice of vendor. These are modular integrated networking cards, which replace traditional fixed LOM infrastructures. Having this flexible and modular option instead of a fixed LOM increases the operational efficiency and longevity of servers, and provides investment protection.

You can also get a huge boost in I/O capacity with more and faster expansion slots and increased internal storage that includes ultrafast Express Flash solid-state drives.

Reduce data center costs with expanded Fresh Air configurations.Run your IT infrastructure at much higher ambient temperatures, and save on cooling costs, with the Dell Fresh Air solution. Every component in next-generation PowerEdge servers is optimized for minimum power consumption.

Gain precise control over energy consumption.Improve your ability to monitor and manage power usage and energy consumption across your entire data center with Dell™ OpenManage™ Power Center, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) Enterprise and Intel Node Manager. OpenManage Power Center enables you to monitor system energy consumption to reduce the risks associated with power fluctuations or outages.

Rapidly access and process vast amounts of data with integrated PCIe Gen3-capable expansion and up to 768GB of memory.

With Intel Node Manager technology, the Dell OpenManage Power Center provides fast power capping to proactively prevent outages. Power efficiency and standards-based innovation are becoming increasingly important to our enterprise customers. That’s why Dell and Intel have been working together to develop and deliver standards-based power management. In fact, we are the first enterprise server provider to support the Intel Node Manager technology broadly across a server portfolio. And we do offer additional features that enhance the standard Node Manager experience using the same interface and communication protocols.

Learn about the requirements and capabilities of OpenManage Power Center and take advantage of accurate, timely and reliable information on power use to identify areas to gain efficiencies and cut wasteful costs.